Abstract
Eumetsat’s Satellite Application Facility on support to Nowcasting and Very Short-Range Forecasting (SAF NWC) products are used by forecasters for various nowcasting purposes. The validation of these products has been performed with good results over different regions and with specific configurations. In the present work, a first step towards the validation of a precipitation SAF NWC Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) product over the Greek area is performed. The Accumulated Convective Rainfall Rate (ACRR) product during the warm months of 2015 is compared against two types of observational data: Rainfall measurements from the meteorological stations network and lightning data from the ZEUS Very Low Frequency (VLF) detection system, both deployed and maintained by the National Observatory of Athens. The open-source Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) is employed to provide the necessary numerical weather prediction input data for the generation of the SAF products.
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